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Glenn Loury (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University) and Rajiv Sethi (Barnard College)

Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield analyze whether the recent personal essays by Jian Ghomeshi and John Hockenberry should have been published.

Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus debate whether creeping authoritarianism is a real danger.

National security reporter Marc Ambinder critiques Bob Woodward’s new book on the Trump administration.

Economist Robin Hanson and social scientist Simon DeDeo debate the social and economic causes of the gender pay gap.

As Hurricane Florence nears the coast, Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss the political effect of massive storms.

Glenn Loury speaks with his son Glenn Loury II, a speculative fiction author.

Robert Wright and philosopher Gregg Caruso wrestle with the slippery notion of “compatibilism.”

Bill Scher and Matt Lewis debate whether the “deplatforming” of figures like Alex Jones from social media is a matter of free speech.

Robert Wright and Ian Bremmer, author of the new book Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, consider the question.

Economist Larry Kotlikoff argues that measuring lifetime spending paints a more accurate picture.

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